Batman #251 Cover Art Being Auctioned (Guess The Final Bid, all ya'll Smarty Pantses !!) 1 1

[grapeape]

On 10/26/2019 at 10:38 PM, grapeape said:

$605,000 with BP

SOLD for $600,000 with BP

I feel brain smart and comic art poor

Congrats to the consignor and to Neal Adams (Cha-Ching!!!!)

Props to whoever bought this. A major conquest, a surviving relic of rich comic art history.

[grapeape]

On 11/3/2019 at 7:56 AM, batman_fan said:

I am waiting until after the auction closes to post my guess.

Was your guess $600,000?

[PhilipB2k17]

Don't really care that I was way under on this one. Even if I had the money, I wouldn't have bid on it anywhere near that price. I don't value it the way a lot of others apparently do. 

[comix4fun]

10 minutes ago, PhilipB2k17 said:

Don't really care that I was way under on this one. Even if I had the money, I wouldn't have bid on it anywhere near that price. I don't value it the way a lot of others apparently do. 

Almost everyone was under I think. And the best part about this hobby is how different people value different artists, titles, characters, eras, etc. It's got its place in the history of the hobby and that must mean a whole lot to someone, which makes sense...but it's obviously not for everyone. 

[batman_fan]

3 hours ago, grapeape said:

Was your guess $600,000?

How did you know, now that was with the BP.  Where did it end up at?

[J.Sid]

Sorry if I missed it, but what was the final result of Neal's offer to authenticate it? Do we know if the Consignor agreed to anything?

 

 

[grapeape]

3 hours ago, J.Sid said:

Sorry if I missed it, but what was the final result of Neal's offer to authenticate it? Do we know if the Consignor agreed to anything?

 

 

Only HA Neal and consignor know for sure. So the rest of us have to guess.

What I do know.

Neal approached HA to “talk” about the authenticity.

 

 

 

Edited November 22, 2019 by grapeape

[comix4fun]

[Will_K]

Not sure if anyone ever mentioned this and I didn't want to post this until after the auction, even if it was essentially public information...

At the Baltimore ComicCon, Adams was selling a giclee of the Batman 251 image from Heritage.

Don't recall at NYCC but sign seems to indicate so. 

It might be reasonable to assume that he thought that (authentic or not) the image was good enough to sell prints of it.

[grapeape]

1 hour ago, Will_K said:

Not sure if anyone ever mentioned this and I didn't want to post this until after the auction, even if it was essentially public information...

At the Baltimore ComicCon, Adams was selling a giclee of the Batman 251 image from Heritage.

Don't recall at NYCC but sign seems to indicate so. 

It might be reasonable to assume that he thought that (authentic or not) the image was good enough to sell prints of it.

Oh Neal...

[AnkurJ]

My post in the other thread 

 

[vodou]

5 hours ago, Bill C said:

200 beans for a photocopy?

No man...not photocopy, it was "struck"

[Will_K]

Also, signed and numbered to 50.